Dash attachment for vehicles



(No Model.)

T. P. SMITH.

DASH ATTACHMENT FOR VEHIGLES.

Patented Jan. 4, 1887'.

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THEODORE F. SMITH,

OF OVID, MICHIGAN.

DASH ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 355,571, dated January i, 1887,

Application filed July 8, 1886. Serial No. 207,403. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, THEODORE F. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ovid, in the county of Clinton and State of Michigan, haveinvented certain new anduseful Improvements in Dash Attachments; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a partofthis specification.

My invention relates to the means employed for attaching the dash of a vehicle to the box or body of said Vehicle; and my invention consists in the general arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out particularly in the claims.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective of my invention, showing dash secured to the box of a vehicle. Fig. 2 is an enlarged section on dotted line-a: a; of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a back View oftone of the angle or supporting irons. Fig. 4 is a back face'view of one of the caps or supporting-plates.

In the drawings, 13 represents the box of a vehicle; S, the ordinary dash O O, the common corner-irons; It R, the uprights or corner supports for the box. All of said parts are in common use.

In Fig. 2, N shows the bottom metal rail of the dash. The dash consists of a metal frame covered with leather, 0 c, in the usual way.

To attach the dash to the front end of the box, I employ two metal (preferably malleable .iron) supports, D D, in which F F represent the attachinglegs, and h h the heads, which I form integral with the legs and at right angles to each other. The legs and heads are concaved on their back faces, the supporting irons being concavoconvex in cross-section.

Each leg is provided with a screw or bolt 13, of the box-body, coining flush with the outer face of the box, as shown clearly in Fig.

2. The free ends of the heads I bevel, as

shown at a of Figs. 2 and 3.

Through each leg of the supports, at the head end, I provide a bolt hole, t. In Fig. 4 I show a metal cap, P, having a flange, f, and bolt-hole t. I employ two such caps. I place each one with its back face against the outer face of the box-body B, with the flanges f fitting over the beveled ends of the heads h h of the supporting-irons. I then place the back lower face of the dash S'against the caps P P, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. A hole, 0, is formed through the metal bar N of the dash, near each end of the dash, and' is made to register with the holes e e in the metal caps P P. I then pass through the dash at each end a bolt, A, which passes through the 110168 t of the caps, thence below the heads h of the attaching-irons, out through'the holes't of the same. I then firmly bind the parts together by means of the nuts. 12 n. The caps P l? are provided with broad faces and rise above the 7 5 upper edge of the box. By this arrangement I obtain a strong support for the dash. The dash can be readily detached by simplyremoving the nuts n n and drawing outward upon the dash. By making the attaching- 8o legs hollow they are readily fitted to the corner supports, R R, of the box.

In the building of boxes where the corner woods, R R, are not used, I design attaching the legs F F of the supporting-irons to the front end of the box, and in such a case the heads h h of said irons are made shorter. It will be observed that the under face of the heads h h of the attaching-irons lie uponthe common corner irons, O O, of the box, which o prevents the edges of the heads from cutting into the upper edge of the box, making a strong and durable support.

Having thus fully set fort-h my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a vehicle, the combination of the corner uprights of the box, the metal supportingirons having the heads and legs formed integral, with bolt-holes at the head ends, the metal caps, the dash, its bottdm rail having bolt-holes to register with the holes of the supporting-irons and said caps, the bolts and nuts for binding said parts together, and bolts orscrews for attaching the supporting-irons to the corner uprights of the box, as and for the purposes specified.

2. In a device for the purposes set forth, the combination of the box, the supportingirons having attaching-legs and heads formed at right angles to each other, with bolt-holes at the head ends, the metal caps having the flanges adapted to fit over the head ends of the supporting-irons with bolt-holes registering with the bolt-holes of the attaching-irons, the dash having holes through the bottom rail to register with the holes in the caps, the bolts and nuts for bindingsaid parts together, and-the screws for attaching the supportingirons to the box, as and for the purposes specified.

3. In a device for the purposes set forth, the combination of the corner uprights of the box, the supporting-irons mounted thereon, said supporting-irons having the legs and heads formed integral, being concavo'convex in crosssection, with bolt-holes t, the metal caps having the bolt-holes t and flangesf, said flanges adapted to fit over the free ends of the heads hof the supporting-irons, the dash, its bottom rail having holes to register with the holes of the caps, and the bolts and nuts for attaching said parts together, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THEODORE F. SMITH.

\Vitnesses:

O. W. RUSSELL,- B. S. WHEELER. 

